EARTH SCIENCE
In a double one of these weather phenomena, the colors in the secondary one are reversed
a rainbow
He bought his 1793 promotion from major to lt. colonel; the investment would pay off at Waterloo
Wellington
Dial this 3-digit prime number in L.A. only for emergencies
911
The first episode in the story told by this popular film series is subtitled "The Phantom Menace"
Star Wars
Silver
The Lone Ranger
DTB is short for depth to this, the solid stuff underlying looser soil
bedrock
A 1917 issue of the Arab Bulletin reported on this then-major & 3 others sharing an ostrich egg for breakfast
Lawrence of Arabia
In the rhyme, it's the number of whacks Lizzie Borden gave her father
41
It was double trouble for this martial arts star playing twins in "Twin Dragons"
Jackie Chan
Rocinante
The Lone Ranger
The drift of 60,000 Nikes lost from a container ship helped establish that the California one flows into the N. Equatorial one
the current
Sergeant Major John Berryman won the Victoria Cross for this 1854 engagement in which his horse was shot under him
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Columbus' first voyage to the new world ended in this year
1493
It was double trouble for this martial arts star playing twins in "Double Impact"
Jean-Claude Can Damme
Trigger's friend Buttermilk
Dale Evans
Standard this measurement is 1,013 millibars at sea level; in a 2007 Texas tornado, a 194-millibar drop was recorded
barometric pressure
This major who conspired with Benedict Arnold asked to be shot, but George Washington had him hanged as a spy
Major John Andre
Fear of this prime number is called triskaidekaphobia
13
Known for comedies like "Mr. Mom", he donned the cape & cowl of Batman in 1989
Michael Keaton
Traveller
Robert E. Lee
It's the quality of Earth's axis that gives us seasons & in geometry it means neither parallel nor perpendicular
oblique
Promoted to major in 1915, he'd go on to World War II fame as a field marshal
Field Marshal Montgomery
Boeing's answer in the early 1960s to the Douglas DC-9; it's good for medium hauls
727
She turned pirate in "Cutthroat Island" & action star in "The Long Kiss Goodnight"
Geena Davis
Bucephalus
Alexander the Great